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There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up.

I'm a big, big blues fan and the last several years I've really invested in the blues a lot, and I think my playing is getting better because of it - not necessarily better on a technical level, but certainly on a level of appropriateness.

James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy.

Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records.

I still like to play the blues more than anything else.

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.